ENGLISH: My friend Carolyn is changing east to west, New York to LA, and yesterday she said Good bye at Williamsburg bar Lucky Dog (303 Bedford Ave, between S. 1 st and S. 2 st) – maybe the one bar in town where dogs are as welcome as humans. Lucky Dog also offers free shuffleboard – more like table-curling than the shufflepuck game I was obsessed with back when my family got its first PC – a cheap bar and a very nice backyard.

ENGLISH: With her simple, feminine designs, beautiful materials and reasonable prices Meg – designed by Meghan Kinney – catches my eye. The airy Williamsburg (56 N. 6th Street) boutique is adorned with old patterns and locally designed jewelry, arranged on an enormous moose horn (horn, in general, seems to be the thing in the hip boutiques of New York right now). The shop in East Village (312 East 9th Street) is a lot smaller, but just as cute.

ENGLISH: A cat with three legs sleeps silently under one of the tables at Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers (218 Bedford Avenue) in Williamsburg. Above its head, as well as on the other other shelves in this favorite, you find a well-sorted selection of art-, music- and photography-books – new as well as old – in combination with a category best described as “books you didn’t know existed but now need to have”. They also sell beautiful notepads and a lot of obscure magazines. Whenever I’m in Williamsburg I just have to stop by!

ENGLISH: Most view for your shopping money you find at newly opened Brooklyn Flea i Williamsburg (27 North 6th St. between Kent Ave. and East River), Sundays 10am–5pm. You don’t even have to shop, it’s enough to just walk around between vendors offering everything from overprized antiques, vintage clothing, homemade jewelry to old bird cages (gah, cravings!) and different kinds of food. When we were there on Sunday we also met Swedish designer Nina Ziefvertwho was selling beautiful clogs from her line Nina Z.

ENGLISH: Easter’s coming up and the dollar is almost ridiculously cheap. So here’s for all you shopping crazy Swedes visiting New York right now (and you’re many, I’ve seen you!). The sample/warehouse sale at Oak (208 N. 8th St.) in Williamsburg started today and will go on ’til Sunday. There’s a lot of black, gray, jeans and jersey, but also som flower prints, neon colors and hot LBD:s. I was there this afternoon and got the feeling that the best items were already long gone, but I left happy with a pair of tights, a hat and three bracelets for a mere 28 bucks. Cash only!

ENGLISH: The second stop on Saturday was Brooklyn Brewery (79 North 11th Street, across from Beacon’s Closet). It was my first time there and just look at Daniel’s and Linda’s enthusiasm! The noisy beer hall was filled with tourists and picnickers who brought games and ordered take-out (a lot of restaurants deliver directly). Not so much fun, but then we took a tour with a guide who didn’t show much of the brewery, but told us a lot of anecdotes (true or false) about mafia and other exciting stuff. He also said that Brooklyn Brewery is like the third best selling beer producer in Sweden – I don’t think so!? – but I forgive him because he made me laugh. Come early, when we left the line outside was long. (And dad, we can go here too if you’d like.)